Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Think and grow rich.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

He who is contented is rich.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.